ariseatex:Bunny Deville: Ariseatex, are you seeing this huge rotation in the middle of the storm near Welty? I'm thinking either it's nothing or it's gonna be huge.

That was huge, but it's weakening. I'm not ruling out reformation, though, on that one.

I hope they're keeping their eye on it. I can just see that one spitting out a mile wide F4 or something.

Also, I do hope this crap isn't headed my way next. The other day I had to track for my dad because there was a little one headed right for his house. He saw the funnel cloud and got 2 inches of rain in 20 minutes.

UnspokenVoice:Tom_Slick: Aigoo: So, I'm sorry; you were saying about tornadoes and how good we have it?

You are not Mississippi who gets Tornadoes AND Hurricanes or something like that.

/If you want to avoid severe weather move to Maine, lived in northern Maine for 15 years other than the occasional blizzard now big weather problems and you can prepare for for blizzards.

Believe it or not, that was a prime consideration for my retiring here.

When he got home, he asked his wife, Tabitha, "Why are we still here?" Here, as in frigid Maine.Until then, he says, "we never really came to terms with the idea that we were rich." When they did, they headed to the west coast of Florida ("surprisingly funky," King says). At first they rented, then bought a winter home, near Sarasota.

:(Also I know where your dad lives (approximately) I watched the same storm you did. I knew it was putting down a lot of rain but not that much, dang. I do the same for my parent's.Oh, and so far NWS doesn't think it will be that bad but it all depends on how the upper level low tracks the next 3+days.

But aren't they both on the San Andreas fault? I'm no seismologist, but if one of them is at risk wouldn't both of them be?Whoops, turned this thread offtopic, although stuff seems to be calming down for today.

:(Also I know where your dad lives (approximately) I watched the same storm you did. I knew it was putting down a lot of rain but not that much, dang. I do the same for my parent's.Oh, and so far NWS doesn't think it will be that bad but it all depends on how the upper level low tracks the next 3+days.

He's in northern Lauderdale County. That thing was seriously headed right for him, we were both pretty freaked out. I had to track it for him because of course his satellite went out.

tinfoil-hat maggie:AbbeySomeone: ariseatex: Matthew Keene: God-is-a-Taco: Seattle has that problem as well, although it's mostly in regards to a tsunami from an offshore one.

I'd like to shake the hand of any tsunami that could make two right turns to get into Puget Sound to affect downtown Seattle.

It's much easier than you think. The underwater geography is such that it would easily channel and amplify any tsunami that did come in.

There's also concern from an earthquake causing a Whidbey Island (or a similar Sound Island) rockfall creating a massive wave in itself.

/minored in rocks for jocks at UW-Seattle//also, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night///slashies come in threes

This and the fault line activity and volcanoes. Rainier is out my back window.Path of the lahar, etc.

So were you saying earlier Rainer is getting twitchy? I sorta saw your earlier post but was watching immediate storm stuff. Or just at anytime it could?

An eruption would happen with a month's notice (if not longer). All those glaciers on the mountain could "flash melt" anytime though, as a precursor to an eruption (or just because it feels like farking with everyone who moved into the lahar zone).